MICR Code: 812002501

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0002929
MICR Code: 812002501
Address: Distbhagalpur Bihar 813003
City: Bhagalpur
District: Colgong
State: Bihar

MICR is acronym of Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. Basically it is a character-recognition technology used by the banking industry to ease the processing and clearance of cheques and other documents.

Generally MICR code is nine character long. First three charaters represent city, next three charaters represents bank name and last three charaters represents bank branch.

Let's decode MICR code 812002501.

  • In this case first three codes 812 is city code and it represents city Bhagalpur.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 501 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Distbhagalpur Bihar 813003.

The easiest way to find MICR code is to check your

  1. Bank account statement
  2. Cheques

Please examine below sample cheque for more details

I hope this clears doubts.